Newsflash

In this WordPress news plugin, it’s possible to have up to 5 tabs. The content of the tabs are entered within the widget parameters. Hot Newsflash is useful if you need a rotator of several breaking news for your home page.

The WordPress news plugin’s widget dimensions are fully configurable. So, you can define the widget’s width and height, as well as the elements (image, text, tabs) widths according to your needs. With some edits in CSS, you can convert solid color tabs into the tabs with background image (as you can see on the Hot Architecture theme). Each slide can be linked. You assign links to the headings, images and add “read more” links. Therefore, it’s easy to use Hot Newsflash as an entry to the deeper areas of your site. In the Hot Furniture Store theme, we linked the content of the widget with the web store’s categories.

Beside these two samples, the official demonstration (unmodified) of the Hot Newsflash is also available on our plugins demo site.

WordPress News Plugin Parameters

Go to your Widgets page and drag and drop the Hot Newsflash widget into any available widget position of your theme. You can reach the WordPress news plugin parameters in Appearance > Widgets > Hot Newsflash. After setup, you will need to configure the widget, so let’s start explaining all options that plugin has.

Widget Width – Enter widget width here according to your needs.

Background Color – Select background using the color picker.

Border Width/Color – If you want the widget to have border around, set it here.

Number of articles – Select how many tabs will be shown (up to 5).

Read more links – Enable or disable “Read more” links and set text for the links.

Rotation speed – How many milliseconds will pass between each slide rotation.